1994

January 14
President Bill Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin announce that, by the end of May, no country will be targeted by missiles of the United States or Russia. A declaration signed by the two presidents states, "For the first time since the earliest days of the Nuclear Age, the two countries will no longer operate nuclear forces, day-to-day, in a manner that presumes they are enemies."

Click here for "White House Statement on Mutual Detargeting, Jan 14, 1994"

President Bill Clinton , President Boris Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid M. Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement whereby Ukraine agrees to transfer all its inherited Soviet nuclear missiles to Russia in exchange for economic assistance, fuel for its five nuclear plants from Russia and help in dismantling missile silos.

February 14
Kazakhstan accedes to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapons state. [see July 1, 1968]

March 14
President Bill Clinton extends the American nuclear testing moratorium through September 1995.

March 30
Detargeting goes into effect under a trilateral agreement between US, Russia and UK.

April 5-6
The Negative Security Assurance is signed.

June 3
India test fires its Prithvi medium-range missile.

June 21-24
Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin sign an agreement to phase out the production of plutonium in Russian nuclear reactors.

May 10
German officials seize 0.19 ounces of nearly pure weapons-grade plutonium-239 in the Stuttgart garage of a German businessman.

August 10
19.75 ounces of a mixed-oxide uranium-plutonium nuclear reactor fuel are seized at Munich Airport from a flight originating in Moscow.

Septemeber 3
Russian-Chinese agreement on detargeting goes into effect.

September 20
The Convention on Nuclear Safety is signed.

November 27
American officials announce that they brought more than half a ton of highly enriched uranium from Kazakhstan to the U.S. in an operation called Project Sapphire . The nuclear material, enough to make 50 nuclear weapons, was considered not to be secure from terrorists in Kazakhstan.

December 14
Six pounds of weapons-grade uranium, believed to have been smuggled out of Russia, are seized by police in Prague, Czech Republic.

December 15
The United Nations General Assembly votes to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The General Assembly asks, "Is the threat or use of nuclear weapons in any circumstances permitted under international law?"

December 17
Mordechai Vanunu spends his 3000th day in solitary confinement in Israeli prison for publicly exposing his government's secret development of nuclear weapons.